SHOOTING IN COLORADO, USA: HOW TO STOP IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN

There have been a string of massacres involving people shooting and killing children and adults at educational institutions...there are ways this can be ended and i have looked at those methods and means....

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SHOOTING IN COLORADO, USA: HOW TO
AVOID SUCH INCIDENTS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?

In order for a society to become a
harbinger of peace and love, the factors that bring about hate,
prejudice, a lack of respect and tolerance for people with other
races or religions or for those who may be different from us has
to stop. Bullying at school, college and university should be
seized. Racial discrimination within the classroom should not be
allowed. Teasing someone because they are different in some
manner or because they look to be goofy should finish as well.
Young adolescents should not be allowed to see tv programmes or
movies that are excessively violent and nor should they be
allowed to play games on the computer that are overtly
violent.

If alcoholism could be banned, a
lot of domestic abuse could end. Incidents of domestic violence
between husband and violence should not involve them involved in
a physical fight. The impact of such fights leaves children in a
trauma. More often than not the children may learn to do the same
when they grow up. Children who are sexually abused may learn to
abuse others when they grow up. In instances where children are
verbally, physically or sexually abused, they will develop
psychological and mental problems. Depression and rage maybe the
outcomes.

Humans need to feel loved and
wanted. Not feeling important, not being accepted as a person and
feeling of loneliness and alienation or being picked upon can
trigger individuals to do perform unthinkable acts such as
suicide and murder.

Unless children are saved from
physical and sexual abuse, if they continue to grow up in broken
homes, if they continue to be raised in an environment where they
feel insecure or unwanted, then you will have more and more
incidents where such children perpetrate horrendous acts of
violence.

Consider the following:

The average 18-year-old has seen
200,000 violent actions committed on television over the course
of his life, including 40,000 murders.

The cold-blooded killer segment of
our audience will probably notice that's an excellent violent
action-to-death ratio, about five to one. We assume that many of
those murders weren't particularly desensitizing and gruesome
affairs, probably mostly involving a hero thoughtlessly mowing
down an army of clumsy masked goons.

But regardless of the severity, the
violence we view on television actually does have an influence on
our behavior. A study that followed the television viewing habits
of 700 children over the course of 17 years found that (again,
after ruling out factors like poverty and neglect) more hours of
television translated to more violent acts. Scientists found that
22.5 percent of children who watched one to three hours of
television per day committed aggressive actions such as threats,
assaults, and fights in subsequent years. If the children watched
more than four hours per day, the percentage rose to 28.8
percent.

In contrast, only 5.7 percent of
kids who watched less than one hour per day would go on to commit
aggressive actions against others.

Now, to be clear, violence in
television isn't nearly as large an influence on future violent
behavior as is living in an abusive home (or, say, having an
obligation to avenge your family after your corrupt uncle usurped
the throne), but it is seemingly enough to make otherwise
complacent children into burgeoning thugs.

Now consider the
following:

Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 -
April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 -
April 20, 1999) were the two American high school seniors who
committed the Columbine High School massacre. The pair killed 13
people and injured 24 others, three of whom were injured as they
escaped the attack. The two then committed suicide in the
library, where they had killed 10 of their victims.

Seung-Hui Cho[2] (pron.: /ˌtʃoʊ
sʌŋˈhiː/; January 18, 1984 - April 16, 2007) was a Korean spree
killer who killed 32 people and wounded 17 others on April 16,
2007, at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
Blacksburg, Virginia.An additional 6 people were injured jumping
from windows to escape.[4] He was a senior-level undergraduate
student at the university. The shooting rampage came to be known
as the "Virginia Tech massacre."Cho later committed suicide after
law enforcement officers breached the doors of the building where
the majority of the shooting had taken place. His body is buried
in Fairfax, Virginia.

In middle school, he was diagnosed
with a severe anxiety disorder known as selective mutism, as well
as major depressive disorder

Read about them and you will learn
that these young men felt isolated and were picked upon. The
South Korean student was suffering from severe anxiety disorder
and a major depressive disorder. His teachers should have
monitored that. The intense aggression within his poems or
writings should have been clearly seen as his being mentally ill.
Perhaps his feeling of being isolated or perhaps being
discriminated against within his class really tipped him over the
edge.

Eric David Harris (April 9, 1981 -
April 20, 1999) and Dylan Bennet Klebold (September 11, 1981 -
April 20, 1999) probably were also picked upon and there feeling
of being not accepted in a social circle or group and being
ridiculed and all probably let them to consider ways of getting
back.

In both the cases, the massacres
were well planned and executed. And in both instances guns and
ammunition were used. And in both the instances, the gunman or
gunmen committed suicide.

There is an intense need for
curbing bulling at schools and educational institutions. Moreover
name calling, racial prejudice and picking on people considered
weak should not be tolerated. However the most significant need
is to amend the gun laws within the country. People who are
teenagers and young adults should not be sold guns or ammunition.
Infact citizens should be required to hand their guns and ammo
back to the government. At the same time crooks and criminals
should be cleansed. The extermination of crooks that are drug
dealers, drug pushers, drug mafias, rapists, child molesters, and
pedophiles along with strict law enforcement should be utilized
to make the country safe for its citizens. The US government
should ideally be utilizing its budget not for spending on its
army or cloak and dagger games. It should be spent on the people
for the people. By investing on education, on poverty
alleviation, on fighting and elimination of crime, and on
rebuilding infrastructure and society in general, the United
States of America could become a better place to live for all its
citizens.